Its 400-odd bicycle makers are busily developing new types of aluminium alloy to make stronger, lighter models.

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So we could end up with just a plain aluminium (or aluminium heavy alloy).

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On April 8th 1982 Dr Shechtman fired a beam of electrons at a slice of aluminium-manganese alloy, in order to understand its crystal structure.

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